Quote Originally Posted by bearhart View Post
Well its good to hear that somebody else has seen it at least.

One thing I did was call the manager of the exotic pet store I frequent and he reminded me that animals, like people, have their "one-off" type of thing. Technically, she did it twice but it was twice in a row so that still kind of counts as "one-off"

I also got her out and handled her for a while and listened to her breathing. No rattling or bubbling.

I haven't seen her do it again and she seems pretty normal. I do use coconut fiber bedding and I was thinking perhaps she got some in her wind-pipe somehow. I have seen mentions of coughing in other threads on here. I don't actually see any reason why a snake couldn't cough in some manner. They probably don't have the throat control we use to make coughs and sneezes really explosive. But, when you think about it, a kind of quick abdominal spasm could accomplish almost the same thing.

i use coconut fibre bedding and that SAME EXACT thing happened to my BP today. At first I was worried that maybe he was trying to regurgitate his meal, but I quickly realized that he has some substrate in his mouth. Needless to say from now on I will most likely use tongs instead of letting him hunt down the mouse. The weird part is that my BP didn't even go to his water dish to try to clear out his mouth or anything. He just layed there with his head up and looked almost like he was yawning repeatedly. I have heard from maybe people that ingesting some coconut fibre shouldnt hurt your snake though.